cut out for

Synonyms

equipped suited fitted just the ticket

Antonyms

inapplicable inapt unfitting inapposite unsuited unapt
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Examples

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. Lois McMaster Bujold

His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in the correct and acceptable fashion. Julian Barnes

I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began. Andrew Pyper

The eye travels along the paths cut out for it in the work. Paul Klee

It looks like poets will always have their work cut out for them. Wisława Szymborska

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself. Edie Falco

Words in the phrase

cut out for

Close letter words and terms

cut one's stick cut oneself cut oneself off cut out of the same cloth cut out the middleman cut over